Ep. 56 - Food pyramid is a lie!

 Welcome friends to the reality of the health podcast. This is Monday minutes.

Did you know that you've been duped? You have been actually.

Duped.

Most of your life.

You were told that.

You should eat. Just like the food pyramid states.

Fill in a bit sarcastic today. Is this topic is the root of something that has worked against me. Most of my.

Nutritional journey.

So, if you sense a little bit of sarcasm and irritation in my voice. Yeah. It's because it's been there underlying. For the last 35 years of my life.

So, what is the food pyramid? Well, Back when Eisenhower was president. He had a heart attack. And his doctor. Ancel Keys.

Said it was because of cholesterol. By the way I'm shortening this huge long story, just to make it a lot faster.

He convinced everybody it was cholesterol.

Even though. By the way. Eisenhower was a major smoker. Just saying.

Ancel also said that smoking had little effect on heart disease whatsoever. And it's all about the cholesterol.

He headed the American heart association, which was really, really small until this happened. And then everything blew up and everything you know about heart disease now is all from the American heart association. He influenced that AHA. As well as the American medical association. And by the way, American heart association was sponsored by guess who. One of the largest, most evil companies on the planet. Proctor and gamble.

They make the well-known product, you know of as Crisco.

Oh, yes. Vegetable shortening.

I think they call it. Vegetable shortening. Cause it shortens your life. And it has to be right.

They make.

Majority of their products. Will kill you. Slowly over time. They don't care about you.

So they came up with the food pyramid.

American heart association. American. Medical association. The U S D A all came up with the food pyramid.

It has been deemed by reliable. Research is as one of the largest public health disasters in all of history, dooming, just about everybody to a lifetime of obesity in ill health.

Until finally it came out in: 1989

I replacing saturated fat with vegetable oil, the risk of death increased.

in his father's basement. In: 1989

Documented.

If this information had got out, Then the food pyramid would never have been established.

Why did it even show such a large proportion at the bottom of the food pyramid to be carbohydrates. Well, during the Nixon era. He wanted to sell grain to Russia. You see Russia needed food, really, really bad. They had a serious shortage of food. So they actually asked America for grain. So Nixon thought, heck yeah, I'll go ahead and. Get our producers to make more grain and sell it to you. What actually happened was we had a massive surplus of grains in America. So the lady that was in charge of the nutritional guidelines of the United States. Pushed for more servings per day of grain products. Bread cereals, pasta, crackers, anything that they could make rice barley didn't matter.

And by the way you would think that the food pyramid would be created by food scientists, right?

Biologists physiologists. No, it was actually created by.

Bureaucrats.

It was developed as a marketing scheme to push the grain.

They wanted you to rely on carbohydrates in plant foods. For your food intake. The nine largest companies all produce almost exclusively products based on carbohydrates and sugar. You know of them. You've heard all the names, Procter and gamble to. Nestle. Kellogg's all of them.

Now the latest food panel contributors. For the guidelines, 95% of the committee.

Have ties to either the food or pharmaceutical industry and over half of those members have 30 ties to the food. And pharmaceutical. And then there's a member actually. Has 150 ties to the food and pharma.

Most common. General mills. And Kellogg's. Go figure.

So then they sell you into believing that these foods at the bottom of the pyramid are healthy.

I'm seeing the ones that are lowest on the. Pyramid are the most unhealthy. So that then they can sell you drugs. Once you get sick, like diabetes. Heart disease. And every other thing you can think of.

It's funny how, when you get rid of the carbs and sugar, all of your blood work and

Your metabolic metrics all get better. Matter of fact, they get great.

Really should probably just flip that pyramid right. Upside down.

I mean, think about it. They say six to 11 servings of carbohydrates a day.

And then they say three to five servings with everything else. Do you know how much food that is? That is a massive amount of food a day, not to mention, just six to 11 servings of carbohydrates a day. Think about that. Six to 11 servings. Are you talking about. Uh, half a piece of toast, two bites of rice. And multiply that time six to 11.

Is that the volume you're talking about or are you talking about a bowl of cereal? Bread from a sandwich. Pasta. Rice. That's that's how huge amount of food. At that's, nobody needs to eat that much food. What's your, um, professional marathoner.

If the food pyramid worked and we wouldn't be getting fatter over the last four to five decades.

They want you on a low fat, high carbohydrate diet. It makes all the big companies richer and you pour and you in ill health. Then the pharmaceutical industry kicks in because they make money on all the drugs. From the by-product of eating all of the foods that the food pyramid tells you to eat. Most of the people on the board of the department of agriculture in charge of the food pyramid are all overweight and sickly.

Go ahead, look it up. You'll see. These people are not specimens of health.

tes has almost tripled. Since: 1980

You say, well, Erik. People don't have any self-control. They eat whatever they want whenever they want. They don't follow the food pyramid. Oh, they don't do. They. Well, the food pyramid actually guides all the food intake for all the institutions from schools to prisons, to government facilities, to the medical profession.

Oh, yes. Ask your doctor the next time you see him, I'm assuming your doctor's not really in the know if he knows real health and real nutrition. He's not going to tell you to eat the food pyramid. He's going to tell you. Yeah, lower the amount you eat, watch out for what you eat. Maybe donate so much sugar, this kind of thing. And if you asked him and you pushed him and say, Hey doc, what do you eat?

He may even tell you. Um, well, I don't need a lot of sugar. Don't eat a lot of carbs. I'm mostly whole foods. And if he's really into the know, he might actually surprise you with what he says. But regardless he has to say. Follow the food pyramid. Those are his medical profession guidelines. He supposed to say that.

Back in: 1995

They revise it every five years. If you don't know this.

So in 95, they actually tried. To state. To eat less sugar. Less salt, less refined foods. I don't agree with the less salt. I'm just saying. Maybe less salt as far as refined, garbage, crappy salt, but any of the good salt? Oh no. You need more?

But the companies. That make money off the food pyramid. They fought back. So the government made them change the words. And actually not just the words. But also the colors of the pyramid. You see when they made red the color for meat? The meat industry said, whoa, that's too scary. Make it purple. So that it doesn't seem like it's red, like bloody. Really.

If you think that color.

Is not important. If you think that what companies do in governments and everybody else does to sell you, things is not important. I've said this so many times you've been sold to believe. Almost everything in health. And there you go. There's another example. The meat industry said no red. Make it purple. Y. Cause they know color psychology. USDA gives financial subsidies. To soybean and the corn industry. Of course they do.

Makes up all the vegetable oil consumption, which causes obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer issues, gut issues, skin issues, eye diseases, fatty liver disease destroys your mitochondria. You actually, I might have an episode on all of that vegetable oil consumption thing.

They give zero money. To fruits and vegetables and the meat industry dairy. They give it all to corn and soybean. Anything that promotes vegetable oils, seed industry.

Y. Why would they not want to ? Subsidize. Salmon.

Or oranges. or raspberries.

Or even kale, which, you know, I don't agree with. Why aren't they subsidizing those farmers?

You know, pretty soon they're going to be. Adding insects and bugs to the bottom of the pyramid, which is the largest portion. You don't believe me, just wait. They're already talking about it. Oh, yeah. And you think the food pyramid is in your best interest? It's not, they want you to eat insects. 📍

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All right.

I think that's enough for today.

This next episode on Wednesday is going to be a doozy. I guarantee it. It's about time. We talk about it.

I hope you listen, otherwise take care of yourselves.